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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
— Irvine Welsh
The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.
— Anthony Hopkins
The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.
— Irvine Welsh
At that time, there was only one thing better that a good fight, and that was having a good fight and getting paid for it.
— Stephen Richards
I was born in Wales but I'm not Welsh - I'm English.
— Christian Bale
We're all like the slaves in the fields now, putting on the front that says 'Everything's fine, boss' while we worry about how to make ends meet.
— Irvine Welsh
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
Any cunt withoot the virus could git run ower the morn. That's the wey ye huv tae look at it. Cannae jist cancel the gig. The show must go oan.
— Irvine Welsh
God gave us words--it's our job to give them wings
— Hope Welsh
It's always struck me as funny that guys with scars get a reputation for being hard. It's the ones that cut them you should be looking out for, right?
— Louise Welsh
I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
— Irvine Welsh
My mum's family are from Blaenau Ffestiniog, the slate town. My grandfather was Elis Humphreys Roberts, so that's quite Welsh isn't it?
— Simon Fowler
You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.
— Irvine Welsh
Take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace
— Irvine Welsh
But ah cannae even endorse these sentiments as they are at best peripheral tae the moment.
— Irvine Welsh
After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
The presiding spirit of Welsh history has been the shape-shifter Gwydion the Magician, who always changed his shape and always stayed the same.
— Gwyn Alfred Williams
Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.
— Irvine Welsh
It's easy to love, or for that matter hate, somebody in their absence, somebody we don't really know...
— Irvine Welsh
Square go then smart cunt!
— Irvine Welsh
Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.
— Irvine Welsh
Living like this is a full-time business.
— Irvine Welsh
Disnae matter if it's Mickey Platini or Franco Begbie, they will aw just have tae wait.
— Irvine Welsh
The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.
— Ian Rush
Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.
— Irvine Welsh
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
— Irvine Welsh
Some people say you should watch a man's feet to see if he's ready to swing a punch, I say watch his fucking eyes!
— Stephen Richards
It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.
— Irvine Welsh
The first job of a writer is to be honest.
— Irvine Welsh
Might huv ehs ma's brains, cause ay his heid taperin backwards intae a point like a fuckin alien.
— Irvine Welsh
God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!
— William Shakespeare
I reach into my bag and I pull out my claw hammer.
— Irvine Welsh
My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.
— John Rhys-Davies
No fuckin way: cunt dies when ah fuckin well say eh dies.
(Jim Frances Begbie as he is trying to resuscitate a friend who's having a stroke.) — Irvine Welsh
(Jim Frances Begbie as he is trying to resuscitate a friend who's having a stroke.) — Irvine Welsh
On the issue of drugs, we wir classical liberals, vehemently opposed tae state intervention in any form.
— Irvine Welsh
Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.
— Evelyn Waugh
Mental burds; needy, crazy, strength-sappin n soul-destroyin, aye, but mair often than not barry fuckin rides.
— Irvine Welsh
Ah took a pish oan the cunt, then ah felt bad aboot Albo's cel so ah sais tae him oan the wey oot, cunt's only went n pished hissel but, eh.
— Irvine Welsh
If I have an antipathy for any class of people, it is for fine ladies. I almost match my Husband's detestation of partridge-shooting gentlemen.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.
— Irvine Welsh
I've had guns pointed at me, and I can tell you that it's not the right place to be standing if some is really mad at you!
— Stephen Richards
Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.
— Irvine Welsh
I'm not Welsh and I didn't know that much about Dylan Thomas , and I saw that he's a huge icon of Welsh-ness.
— Tom Hollander
He's an American, qualified to play for Wales because he has a Welsh grandmother, who was on the bench against Switzerland.
— Guy Mowbray
Good luck to progressive candidates in U.S. Senate elections against the usual rich, white, racist, women-hating pricks they run against.
— Irvine Welsh
Thy tongue
Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,
Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,
With ravishing division, to her lute. — William Shakespeare
Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,
Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,
With ravishing division, to her lute. — William Shakespeare
People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
I've read a lot of Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting, Glue - he's written some beauties.
— Andrew Flintoff
The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt ...
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
[...] but it's aw hate, hate, hate wi some punters, and whair does it git us likesay, man? Whair the fuck does it git us?
— Irvine Welsh
This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.
— Irvine Welsh
Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.
— Maureen Johnson
He really is a cunt ay the first order. Nae doubt about that. The big problem is, he's a mate n aw. Whit kin ye dae?
— Irvine Welsh
Use the noble gifts which God has given you!
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
Are you asking me or telling me?
— Irvine Welsh
The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.
— John McWhorter
'On earth the living have much to bear;' the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
She's lovely and she's with Skinner, and they're probably in love and there's no justice in this world
— Irvine Welsh
Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today,
— Mikey Welsh
It seemed that young people, despite their fundamental decency, now had to buy into a mind-set which made viciousness and treachery come easy.
— Irvine Welsh
I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
She's nothing to do with my shit, but fuck it, none of us are saints and scapegoats are always handy.
— Irvine Welsh
I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.
— Ian Rush
If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him.
— Robbie Savage
I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
— Gary Speed
I wonder that among all the evils deprecated in the Liturgy, no one thought of inserting flitting. Is there any worse thing? Oh no, no!
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
This is what being alive's all about, all those fucked up feelings. You've got to have them; when you stop, watch out.
— Irvine Welsh
We all see what we want to see.
— Irvine Welsh
The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind.
— Irvine Welsh
we're not human any more. We've slipped out of our skins like lizards, shedding not just our pasts, but our futures.
— Irvine Welsh
Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.
— Irvine Welsh
Remember how it felt yesterday? What you saw me do?" I snorted and grinned. "Man, do I ever. I remembered twice last night and again this morning.
— Missy Welsh
The less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation.
— Irvine Welsh
Okay baby, let's take this rocket to Uranus. This hoor is perfect, and she can act as well.
— Irvine Welsh
Welsh mutates initial consonants. Actually all languages do, but most of them take centuries, while Welsh does it while your mouth is still open.
— Jo Walton
Dicing with death is one man's cup of tea, but another man's poison. I just didn't fear anything.
— Stephen Richards
When I get home I take some sleeping pills and within what seemed like half an hour of unconsciousness it was Monday morning again.
— Irvine Welsh